Extremism. It is an almost infallible sign — a kind of death-rattle — when a human institution is forced by its members into stressing those and only those factors which are identificatory, at the expense of others which it necessarily shares with competing institutions because human beings belong to all of them.

It's supposed to be automatic but actually you have to press this button.

What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.

It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it were on your side and not theirs.

Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction.

I'm myself, not a label.

Like living creatures, automobiles expired when their environment became saturated with their own excreta. We ourselves are living creatures. We don't want the same to happen to us.